John Shimkus: “I will read into the Record a statement. This is from the International Energy Agency, Global Energy and CO<INF>2</INF>…”

“I will read into the Record a statement. This is from the International Energy Agency, Global Energy and CO<INF>2</INF> Status Report 2018, published March of 2019, so it is pretty much fresh off the press. It addresses some of these issues that I have mentioned during this debate today about how we have been doing things; how, overall, missions are decreasing; and how public policy has helped, and the like. This is on page 10: ``In the United States, the emission reductions seen in 2017 were reversed with an increase of 3.1 percent in CO<INF>2</INF> emissions in 2018.'' That is what we addressed about the economy going up, more CO<INF>2</INF> emissions. ``Despite this increase, emissions in the United States remain around their 1990 levels, 14 percent and 800 metric tons of CO<INF>2</INF> below their peak in 2000. This is the largest absolute decline among all countries since 2000.'' So I think that is instructive when we are here debating a bill that is not going to be reviewed by the Senate and the President is not going to sign it. We look forward to working with my colleagues on the Committee on Energy and Commerce on things that we can do to work together to even make better strides than what we already have in this country. We don't get a lot of credit because we don't couch it in, as I said before, Mr.…”